Ironically . . .when the movie debuted in 1965, the producers were hoping to capitalize on Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis' chemstry from "Some Like it Hot" a few years earlier. Unfortunately, the movie went way over budget and flopped at the box office. HOWEVER, it has become a major hit over the years from airings on TV. the irony of that was that the movie was so long (3.25 hours) they had to split it over 2 nights--and people would still tune in. (This is long before the era of VCR's etc). I raised my kids on this movie and even though they were born 20-25 years later, this is still a favorite, and I hope they raise their future kids with it as well.

David_H wrote:Ironically . . .when the movie debuted in 1965, the producers were hoping to capitalize on Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis' chemstry from "Some Like it Hot" a few years earlier. Unfortunately, the movie went way over budget and flopped at the box office. HOWEVER, it has become a major hit over the years from airings on TV. the irony of that was that the movie was so long (3.25 hours) they had to split it over 2 nights--and people would still tune in. (This is long before the era of VCR's etc). I raised my kids on this movie and even though they were born 20-25 years later, this is still a favorite, and I hope they raise their future kids with it as well.

Yeah, it's a great movie. If they remade it nowadays, they'd have all sorts of CGI effects, probably blood and guts everywhere. I like the movies where all of the special effects were real, someone had to figure out how to physically create them and make them believable, instead of pushing a few buttons on a computer. I enjoy studying the old classics and trying to figure out just how they achieved some of those amazing effects. I'm a huge fan of the great Ray Harryhausen. He painstakingly created stop-motion effects for some of the greatest films ever made, not the least of which was the original King Kong. The stuff they grind out today just doesn't impress me, it's just too easy to create almost anything they can imagine.

BTW, I've been reading about them re-opening the investigation into Natalie Wood's death. Hope they finally do figure out what really happened, I've never believed it was just an accident. I know who I've always thought was involved, but won't name him here (his initials are RW).

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"Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

If you watch Monsters Inc--the fancy restaurant where Mike W. takes his Monster Girlfriend is called Harryhausens's. Bit of tribute there.

aside: They did open for a few weeks the NW case and were looking at RW but I think they quickly closed it again. nothing new to learn. . .too much time gone by. . .I dunno. It kinda fell out of the news a few days later. I guess I could google it but I'd rather go on in my delusions about CW.

BTW . . .does it seem odd to anybody else that everybody connected to this case. . .last name ends in W? Coincidence????? I think not!

Although I noticed in an earlier post you needed to "take care of some things". Well good luck to you and your "things". I hope we will see you around here soon. We will sure miss your awesome skills and Creativity around these parts.

Was doing some research for a new model and happened to come across some new photos of a Hannibal 8 being restored. Couldn't figure out how I had missed them before, but then I noticed that they were posted to Flickr about 9 months after I posted my model. Figured I'd post them here in case anybody wanted to see what the Hannibal 8 really looks like in some of the areas where I had to use my imagination because there were no reference photos available at the time.

This is what my less-than-stellar imagination came up with for the hydraulics, chain drive and whatnot

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and here's what it actually looks like

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The caption under the photo reads

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Some more photos

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Could have made the interior more accurate and detailed if I had had this photo

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Didn't know all this stuff was in the back seat, I assume it's for the hydraulics

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As you can see it's in pretty bad shape, but I did some searching and came up with some photos of it after being restored. As you can see the restoration is not complete, some parts are missing, such as the nose cone, spare tires, luggage, the pole holding up the roof, one of the rear wheels, etc. But it's definitely come a long way.

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Apparently the guy standing at the control raises and lowers the vehicle, a real step up from the other Hannibal 8's on display elsewhere that are static and held up by poles. Also, this is the only one that got it right as far as the fenders raising with the body, like they did in the movie.

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Anyhow, just thought I'd post these here in case anybody might be interested. Am I gonna update my model with this new info? Probably not

The gaudy gold structure you can see in the background of the second photo is part of a Wurlitzer organ that was also restored at the Stahl Museum. You can see it being played in Mar 2015, with the Hannibal 8 and a Leslie Special in the background here:

ric323 wrote: Did you notice the back end of the moose at 2:48 in that video?

Oh yes. Always good for a chuckle or two. A nice bit of Blake Edwards' subtle wit.

BTW . . .I could probably do this in Sketchup. Professor Fate's Noise Seeking torpedo. My son and I did this years ago for his first cub scout pinewood derby car. great little conversation piece. It lost in the race. .but won first place in Design.